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It is of great important to study pulsar beam shapes if we are concerned with emission theories and pulsar birth rate. Both observations and/or the inverse Compton scattering model show that different emission components are emitted from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 R. X. Xu , J. W. Xu , G. J. Qiao

Recently a data set containing linear and circular polarisation information of a collection of six hundred pulsars has been released. The operative radio wavelength for the same was 21 cm. Pulsars radio emission process is modelled either…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Karam Chand , Subhayan Mandal

Observations suggest that in normal period radio pulsars, coherent curvature radiation is excited within 10$\%$ of the light cylinder. The coherence is attributed to Langmuir mode instability in a relativistically streaming one-dimensional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-15 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

Time-dependent cascades of electron-positron pairs are thought to be the main source of plasma in pulsar magnetospheres and a primary ingredient to explain the nature of pulsar radio emission, a longstanding open problem in high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Simon Iteanu , Paolo Tortone , Luis O. Silva

We perform 2D and 3D kinetic simulations of reconnection-mediated turbulent flares in a magnetized electron-positron plasma, with weak and strong radiative cooling. Such flares can be generated around neutron stars and accreting black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 J. Nättilä , A. M. Beloborodov

Electrons/positrons produced in a pulsar magnetosphere emit synchrotron radiation, which is widely believed as the origin of the non-thermal X-ray emission detected from pulsars. Particles are produced by curvature photons emitted from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-03 Shota Kisaka , Shuta J. Tanaka

The light curves of gamma-ray pulsars detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope show great variety in profile shape and position relative to their radio profiles. Such diversity hints at distinct underlying magnetospheric and/or emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-10 M. Breed , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson

A two-dimensional electrodynamic model is used to study particle acceleration and non-thermal emission mechanisms in the pulsar magnetospheres. We solve distribution of the accelerating electric field with the emission process and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang , S. Shibata

We consider the effect of rapid rotation on the light curves of neutron stars with hot polar caps. For $P \approx 3$ms spin periods, the pulse fractions can be as much as an order of magnitude larger than with simple slowly-rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Timothy M. Braje , Roger W. Romani , Kevin P. Rauch

We conduct force-free simulations of a single neutron star undergoing orbital motion in flat spacetime, mimicking the trajectory of the star about the center of mass on a compact binary system. Our attention is focused on the kinetic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Federico Carrasco , Masaru Shibata

Results of a simulation of synchrotron-self Compton (SSC) emission from a rotation-powered pulsar are presented. The radiating particles are assumed to be both accelerated primary electrons and a spectrum of electron-positron pairs produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

We have conducted observations of 22 pulsars at frequencies of 0.7, 1.4 and 3.1 GHz and present their polarization profiles. The observations were carried out for two main purposes. First we compare the orientation of the spin and velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , M. Kramer , A. Karastergiou , G. Hobbs , S. Ord , J. Wallman

We modify the conventional curvature radiation (inverse Compton scattering) + synchrotron radiation polar cap cascade model by including the inverse Compton scattering of the higher generation pairs. Within the framework of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bing Zhang , Alice K. Harding

We report preliminary results of our study of linear polarization in the pulsar emission at 35 & 327 MHz. We have exploited for this purpose the spectral modulation resulting from the differential Faraday rotation across the observed band.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashish Asgekar , A. A. Deshpande

We consider the electrodynamics of in-spiraling binary pulsars, showing that there are two distinct ways in which they may emit radiation. On the one hand, even if the pulsars do not rotate, we show that in vacuo orbital rotation generates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Emanuele Sobacchi , Mario Vietri

The emission from the relativistically hot plasmas of high-energy astrophysical synchrotron sources, pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) in particular, depends on the level of magnetic fluctuations. Recent observations by the X-ray polarimeter IXPE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Luca Del Zanna , Niccolò Bucciantini , Simone Landi

We investigate the three-dimensional, general relativistic Poynting-Robertson effect in the case of rigidly rotating spherical source which emits radiation radially in the local comoving frame. Such radiation field is meant to approximate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-27 Pavel Bakala , Vittorio De Falco , Emmanuele Battista , Kateřina Goluchová , Debora Lančová , Maurizio Falanga , Luigi Stella

We discuss growing evidence that pulsar high energy is emission is generated via Inverse Compton mechanism. We reproduce the broadband spectrum of Crab pulsar, from UV to very high energy gamma-rays - nearly ten decades in energy, within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Maxim Lyutikov

The power spectrum formula of the synchrotron radiation generated by the electron and positron moving along the concentric circles at the opposite angular velocities in homogenous magnetic field is derived in the Schwinger version of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Miroslav Pardy

High energy radiation from nonthermal particles accelerated in relativistic magnetic reconnection is thought to be important in many astrophysical systems, ranging from blazar jets and black hole accretion disk coronae to pulsars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 Hayk Hakobyan , Alexander Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky